Lyrics:

[feat. Mike Shinoda]

[B-Real](
I was an outcast, outsider, (trouble maker(
A lost soul, outta control,(in danger(
Didn't have a care in the world(, my feeling were numb(
Never showing emotion(i is easy for some
(I don't know how it happened(, how I got to this point(
But I needed a way out, (I was stuck in a void(
I needed another path or I'd self destruct(
I was down on my luck, (my head was so fucked
A menace rollin' the streets is what I was
(Holdin' my heat and rollin' with the serious thugs(
You couldn't tell me a thing,(I was like my brother
Words went in one ear and out the other(
Slangin' and bangin', with a chip on my shoulder(
An insane, hit the brain( certified street soldier(
So close to the grave, you at an early age
Can't tell you the price I've paid((

[Mike Shinoda - Chorus](
Oh, the sky overhead is like a canvas of grey(
I dunno how much time (I'll be given to stay
From the first break of light (to the end of the day(
I'm just livin' my life( 'till they come carry me away

(([Sen Dog]
(I've been there in LA nights( in the block where I came up(
My pops used to hate( when we hanged with them bangers
(Guess he knew one day that we'll become us(
That's just how it is when you live where we come from
("Fight, don't run"( is the motto we live by(
Get 'em on the ground( and stomp a mind about ten times
(Sure we was just kids back then(
I had no remorse for what we did back then(
Six of us, one call, we'd all pack in(
Hit the strip, and go and get the shit crackin'
(Gun wars, and drug deals, I seen 'em happen
(When I started losin' home boys I wasn't laughin'(
I looked all around and seen none of 'em there(
That's when I figured out,( that nobody cared(
If we lived or die,( we'll just get high and ride(
And I wasn't gonna let this happen one more time

(([Chorus]

(([B-Real]
(My mother was there for me( every step of the way
(She didn't judge me(, she told me I'd win some day(
When I was at my lowest(, when I had no focus(
She pulled me out the gutter(, said I wasn't hopeless
(Every night she prayed for me(, I was out on the street(
Chillin' on the corner with the hand on my heat(
Eyes open wide for the pigs and foes(
It's an every day hazard when you hustle for dough
(So many nights I didn't come home,( she thought the worst
(Maybe somebody shot me down( without any remorse(
Maybe I hurt somebody and I was stuck in a cell(
Well I regret all those time that I put her through hell(
When I reflect back on those days, my heart aches(
And everybody I lost or let down,(I wish I could take it all back(
And make it better but I can't so I try to make amends
(And be there, through thick and thin((

[Chorus]((
(Come carry me away(
Come carry me away(
Come carry me away
(Come carry me away(